The floppy drive died after a significant fraction of the users stopped relying on floppies. Similarly discs were made unpopular by streaming before the CD drive died. Most people I know still plug in their head phones and most new headphones sold still have a cable.
> The floppy drive died after a significant fraction of the users stopped relying on floppies. Similarly discs were made unpopular by streaming before the CD drive died.
My point was that Apple dropped all of those things while the "mainstream PC" industry was still shipping them as standard items.
> most new headphones sold still have a cable
cough
"Bluetooth headphones account for 54 percent of U.S. dollar sales in the category, according to NPD"
Seriously if it is by revenue that means there are at least a hundred times more people using $10 quite decent wired headphones.
Me included. I don't want blue tooth headphones. Ever!! Can I make it more clear?
There is no comparison possible between a bad battery problem in one particular phone and headphone jack removal.
The fact is Apple has a very long tradition of making every part of their ecosystem more proprietary over time and fucking their own customers over along the way.
Just consider the lightning port. As if it wasn't bad enough they refused to use the ancient industry standard micro USB in the first place, they then went on to screw over their own customers by changing their own connector
As far as the floppy drive, a lot of us had long since dropped it in the PC industry even if charitable vendors were courageous enough to offer long term to support to customers who may still have had a legacy requirement at the time.
